soo.....so far everything i have put into my life hasnt been too hard to juggle and work with which is very good, and i just hope it continues to be that way. i need to remind myself to schedule rest time into my schedule next semester. might be a nice thing to have...but as said before, it hasnt been too bad so far. i got my first pay check today!! w00t! it wasnt too shabby for being just a weeks worth of pay. i think it will get my by :-) i really like my job working in the nursing office. sometimes its a little slow and dragging, but for the most part i like it. i like the people i work with. good things. hmmm lets see...this was my first week to do the "america reads tutoring" thing. and so in the mornings on tuesday and thursday from 11-11:30 i go to kensett elementary with 1st grade and have some of the kids read to me individually. thats cool, i like that. and then from 2-3 i go to westside elementary with 2nd grade and i've been helping this little boy named fernando with reading. if you read a story too him he is pretty good with knowing what you read him and answering some basic questions about the story, but he has a little trouble with specific stuff and he really struggles with reading. he has trouble with words that my first graders are reading to me. soo, thats kinda sad cause i wanna help him and help him learn english better (he's from Honduras) but we had fun today reading the story and answering some questions i asked to make sure he was understanding. he is soo adorable. i have a bible test tomorrow and a scene performance in acting tomorrow. oh boy. i dont really know how the bible test is going to go because its our first one, and his class is kinda random...i dont know. but i dont think it will be hard. so thats that. and my acting scene my acting partner and i have been working on it all week, and i think it will be pretty good. the scene is called "sure thing" and its a bell scene. were the ultimate goal is for the two people to be together, but because of their own or the other persons responses that goal keeps getting turned down and so every time that happens (when the relationship isnt moved forward) a bell rings and they start over. so its pretty cool. i like the scene. and today when we were practicing we had a "break through" you could say. it takes place in a coffee shop and so we WERE sitting at a round coffee table. but i felt really constricted by that and wanted to just get away! sooooo i decided to try it with a "couch" instead and we did it like that and liked it so much better. so we perform tomorrow, and we shall see how the teacher likes it :-\
hmmm oh yeah. so while i was home my friend mary told me about a paramore and the almost concert in november and asked if i wanted to go, because that will be a great concert!! and so i looked online and found out that its the saturday when we get out for thanksgiving break, so that works perfectly!! and i asked my friend from school natalie if she wanted to go too because she loves paramore, and she is! soo yay!! we are going to a show november 17th and it will be great, im excited!
and thats pretty much it for now. just wanted to give a quick update because i havent in a week or so.
well off to do work...byes xox
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
start of week 4
its very late, so this wont be a long one, but just wanted to give a quick update since i have failed to do so since my first. this past weekend the pipers had our piper retreat at camp takoda, and that was a blast. there was so much laughing, we were non stop having a good time. we worked most of saturday and came up with some good stuff and us new pipers got kinda used to doing things in skits and whatnot. we played this game called "crazy 8 ball," which was really fun! number off and that is your order and then the goal is the hit the 8 ball with the cue ball before it goes in a pocket or stops rolling. only other people infront of you are trying to make the ball do those things (if they are good and arent just worried about hitting the ball, like me) and also you can only through the ball from the ends of the table, no moving it from the side. and then from there it is kinda like "horse" only instead of spelling horse you spell PIPERS (you get a letter everytime the ball stops or goes in the pocket). so yeah, we played that game alot and that was a really fun game with lots of running around the table. it was a tiring but very awesome weekend.
lets see....i had my first anatomy and physiology test monday. yikes. i could have been a little more prepaired for that test. not looking forward to seeing my grade on this one. granted i was gone the whole weekend before the test, i could have studied more before the weekend and started earlier. but now all these are things i know for the next test, which i hope to get more study time in for. and for now i am just waiting to see what the first test ended up being. man, talk about a test though. first it was 4 chapters and the first beginning chapters only have a bajillion things you have to flat memorize (regional terms, characteristics and such of all of the tissue cell types). lots of information. probably close to 200 questions. around there. so we shall see.
tonight i had a hot date with marie :-) because we dont have guys to go out with so we have a minigirls night and go see a movie with eachother. and on tuesdays the cinema is only $3, so what better reason to go see a movie. and tyler perring, a fellow piper and my color partner ended up going with us too because he said he wanted to see the movie. so we went and saw that and it was pretty good. not a great movie or anything, but alright. we had fun non the less. and made me want to love my kids (when i have them) more than anything and cherish them and never get so up the social food chain that i feel the need to hire a nanny. :-P
well off to bed for me for preparation of another full day of school-ness
xoxo
lets see....i had my first anatomy and physiology test monday. yikes. i could have been a little more prepaired for that test. not looking forward to seeing my grade on this one. granted i was gone the whole weekend before the test, i could have studied more before the weekend and started earlier. but now all these are things i know for the next test, which i hope to get more study time in for. and for now i am just waiting to see what the first test ended up being. man, talk about a test though. first it was 4 chapters and the first beginning chapters only have a bajillion things you have to flat memorize (regional terms, characteristics and such of all of the tissue cell types). lots of information. probably close to 200 questions. around there. so we shall see.
tonight i had a hot date with marie :-) because we dont have guys to go out with so we have a minigirls night and go see a movie with eachother. and on tuesdays the cinema is only $3, so what better reason to go see a movie. and tyler perring, a fellow piper and my color partner ended up going with us too because he said he wanted to see the movie. so we went and saw that and it was pretty good. not a great movie or anything, but alright. we had fun non the less. and made me want to love my kids (when i have them) more than anything and cherish them and never get so up the social food chain that i feel the need to hire a nanny. :-P
well off to bed for me for preparation of another full day of school-ness
xoxo
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Year two beginnings
so, it is the beginning of a new year here at harding university. and these first two weeks have been great!! my roommate (leah) and i finally have our room set up and mostly decorated! so that is good news! a group of our friends have a suite together down our hall, so thats even better news! and just seeing friends again and hanging out again has been great.
i have to admit, my class schedule kinda stinks alot this semester, but sometimes you just cant help it. so far all my classes are going very well. we havent had many grades (if any) yet, so im not sure how hard the course work is going to be (tests, etc). i should be ok. just in case any one wanted to know, the classes i am taking this semester are the following:
prevention and treatment of injuries
acting one
life of christ
theater production (tech class, we just work on the big shows going on...this semester that would be the musical)
anatomy and physiology
trigonometry
theater movement
so there you have it. and if 17 hours wasnt enough to keep me busy this semester i am also the historian for our theater club (campus players/APO), and involved in the musical. we are doing "the wizard of oz" for homecoming and i am one of the dog handlers. so far i am only going to rehearsal on sundays because we have i think 5 dog handlers. but depending on how well the dog responds to me and others they might low that number closer to show time or for the show...we arent really sure how they are going to do that yet. so i have that, and then i am also the props master for a play called "three viewings" which is a student directed play going up in october. im excited for when full cast and crew rehearsals start for that because i am really looking forward to working with the director, this girl is amazing. she studied for a year at NYU in their theater department and then left to come to harding, and she is quite talented (and very humble about herself). and the thing that i am most excited about being a part of starting this year is a group called Pied Pipers!!!
the pipers are a childrens theater troupe that performs for preschool-6th grade mostly (they have done older age group shows as well), and they also perform at church stuff and at VBS and some things like that. i tried out for this group last year and made call-backs but didnt make it in, and so i tried out again this year and got called back again! and this year i made it with my best friend amber (who i became bf's with last year at piper tryouts)!!!! and we are both way too excited!!! i was so happy when i found out, it is going be an amazing experience i can not wait to start!! the other two people that made the new pipers with us i really like and if i could have picked the list i would have picked them too, so all is well with that and we are going to have an awesome group! we start rehearsals tuesday (every tuesday and thursday from 6:30-8:30) so we are getting straight down to it, and i couldnt be happier!
other good news (kinda) is that i found an on campus job friday. i am now working in the nursing office on monday, wednesday, and friday from 11 am - 1 pm. so its only 6 hours a week, but that is better than nothing, so im fine with that. the only down fall to this is that 11-1 was my break on m, w, f so now i am in class/work from 9am-6:30 straight! on fridays just 9-4 pm straight. and i mean, straight! after 9:00 chapel i have about 25-30 mins to get something to eat and then i am on the go from there. so im not thrilled about that, but hey, have to earn money.
well, i think that is pretty much all that has happened and all there is to know about the first two weeks of school. that was a pretty long post...most wont be that long, but alot has happened in the first two weeks, and that just kinda catches everyone up on life so far :-)
i have to admit, my class schedule kinda stinks alot this semester, but sometimes you just cant help it. so far all my classes are going very well. we havent had many grades (if any) yet, so im not sure how hard the course work is going to be (tests, etc). i should be ok. just in case any one wanted to know, the classes i am taking this semester are the following:
prevention and treatment of injuries
acting one
life of christ
theater production (tech class, we just work on the big shows going on...this semester that would be the musical)
anatomy and physiology
trigonometry
theater movement
so there you have it. and if 17 hours wasnt enough to keep me busy this semester i am also the historian for our theater club (campus players/APO), and involved in the musical. we are doing "the wizard of oz" for homecoming and i am one of the dog handlers. so far i am only going to rehearsal on sundays because we have i think 5 dog handlers. but depending on how well the dog responds to me and others they might low that number closer to show time or for the show...we arent really sure how they are going to do that yet. so i have that, and then i am also the props master for a play called "three viewings" which is a student directed play going up in october. im excited for when full cast and crew rehearsals start for that because i am really looking forward to working with the director, this girl is amazing. she studied for a year at NYU in their theater department and then left to come to harding, and she is quite talented (and very humble about herself). and the thing that i am most excited about being a part of starting this year is a group called Pied Pipers!!!
the pipers are a childrens theater troupe that performs for preschool-6th grade mostly (they have done older age group shows as well), and they also perform at church stuff and at VBS and some things like that. i tried out for this group last year and made call-backs but didnt make it in, and so i tried out again this year and got called back again! and this year i made it with my best friend amber (who i became bf's with last year at piper tryouts)!!!! and we are both way too excited!!! i was so happy when i found out, it is going be an amazing experience i can not wait to start!! the other two people that made the new pipers with us i really like and if i could have picked the list i would have picked them too, so all is well with that and we are going to have an awesome group! we start rehearsals tuesday (every tuesday and thursday from 6:30-8:30) so we are getting straight down to it, and i couldnt be happier!
other good news (kinda) is that i found an on campus job friday. i am now working in the nursing office on monday, wednesday, and friday from 11 am - 1 pm. so its only 6 hours a week, but that is better than nothing, so im fine with that. the only down fall to this is that 11-1 was my break on m, w, f so now i am in class/work from 9am-6:30 straight! on fridays just 9-4 pm straight. and i mean, straight! after 9:00 chapel i have about 25-30 mins to get something to eat and then i am on the go from there. so im not thrilled about that, but hey, have to earn money.
well, i think that is pretty much all that has happened and all there is to know about the first two weeks of school. that was a pretty long post...most wont be that long, but alot has happened in the first two weeks, and that just kinda catches everyone up on life so far :-)
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